Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One Hundred and Fifty Writers from the Period of the Paston Letters to the Present DayWilliam Baptiste Scoones Harper & Bros., 1880 - 573 páginas |
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... character . In putting forth this volume I need scarcely say that it is not , and can- not be , a complete treasury of English letters from the Lan- castrian to the Victorian era . I have simply endeavoured , after a careful survey of ...
... character . In putting forth this volume I need scarcely say that it is not , and can- not be , a complete treasury of English letters from the Lan- castrian to the Victorian era . I have simply endeavoured , after a careful survey of ...
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... Characters of you and yours that are left , in our valuing rightly all their faithful and honest Endeavours . More we will not write of this subject , but have dis- patched this Gentleman to visit both your Lord , and condole with you ...
... Characters of you and yours that are left , in our valuing rightly all their faithful and honest Endeavours . More we will not write of this subject , but have dis- patched this Gentleman to visit both your Lord , and condole with you ...
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... characters of the later Elizabethan and early Stuart periods . He was a many - sided man . His youth was spent as a hard- reading recluse ; his early married life , after he had become private secretary to a nobleman , was full of ...
... characters of the later Elizabethan and early Stuart periods . He was a many - sided man . His youth was spent as a hard- reading recluse ; his early married life , after he had become private secretary to a nobleman , was full of ...
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... character of a large mind ; the subject , method and expressions , excellent and homogenial , and to say truth , sweet heart , somewhat exceeding my commendations . My words cannot render them to the life , yet , to show my ingenuity ...
... character of a large mind ; the subject , method and expressions , excellent and homogenial , and to say truth , sweet heart , somewhat exceeding my commendations . My words cannot render them to the life , yet , to show my ingenuity ...
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... character , as I received it from your Eminency , that fire which is kindled between them will not ask bellows to blow it and keep it burning . But what I think farther necessary in this matter I will send to your Eminency by Lockhart ...
... character , as I received it from your Eminency , that fire which is kindled between them will not ask bellows to blow it and keep it burning . But what I think farther necessary in this matter I will send to your Eminency by Lockhart ...
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acquainted affection affectionate Alexander Pope answer beauty believe Bishop Bolingbroke Charles comfort Countess of Bute Dean Swift dear death desire Duke Earl endeavour England English esteem father favour fortune France French friendship give grace hand happy hath hear heart heaven honour hope Horace Walpole Horatio Nelson humble servant James Howel John JOHN DRYDEN John Evelyn JONATHAN SWIFT Joseph Addison kind King Lady live London Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lordship Madam Majesty Majesty's manner matter mean mind nature never obliged Oliver Cromwell opinion Parliament passion person pleased pleasure poet Pope pray present Queen reason received Richard Steele Robert Herrick Samuel Johnson sent sure tell thee thing thought tion told true truth unto virtue William wish word write written young
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Página 161 - Lordship the justice of believing me to be with the greatest respect, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient and most obliged humble servant JON.
Página 509 - We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. But for Greece — Rome, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis, of our ancestors, would have spread no illumination with her arms, and we might still have been savages and idolaters...
Página 239 - I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the publick should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with...
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Página 517 - ... delivered. 7 Our help standeth in the Name of the Lord : who hath made heaven and earth. Psal. cxxv. Qui confidant. HEY that put their trust in the Lord shall be even as the mount Sion : which may not be removed, but standeth fast for ever. 2 The hills stand about Jerusalem : even so standeth the Lord round about his people, from this time forth for evermore.